Price
$3,500.00
Dimensions
10.000 x 18.000 x 7.000 inches
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Description:
CALVIN ALBERT – ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST - PROMINENT ARTIST AND SCULPTOR
This unique piece of several figures wrapped in geometric form is a taupe color of terra cotta material.
It weighs 18 lbs. and is signed by the late Calvin Albert, Sculptor.
Calvin's TERRA COTTA SCULPTURES. Calvin's terra cotta works were rolled thin on cloth and virtually tossed by him. Tools were used to shape without the normal finger manipulation that would leave anxious traces of hand; while other Terra Cotta pieces are sculptured using both techniques, tools and hand!
*** See below for further biography information about Calvin Albert. ***
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Calvin's works afforded him many AWARDS including but not limited to:
1944 Haass Prize, Detroit Institute of Arts
1953 International Hororable Mention, London
1954 Forst Award for Sculpture, Audubon Artists
1954 Audubon Artists Sculpture
1966 Guggenheim Fellowship
National Academy of Design
1975 National Institute of Arts and Letters
1975 American Academy of Arts and Letters
Calvin's Sculpture COMMISSIONS included but not limited to:
1954 Art Doors and Candelabra: Steinberg House, N.Y.C.
1955 Outdoor Candelabra: Temple Israel, Tulsa, OK
1957 Eternal light and Candelabra: Temple Israel, Bridgeport, Conn.
1959 Crucifix, Tabernacle and Candlesticks: St. Paul's Church, Peoria, Ill.
1974 Façade Relief, Congregation Emanuel of Grand Rapids
About the artist:
CALVIN ALBERT was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1918.
He studied in Chicago with Archipenko and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy before moving to New York with his wife in 1947.
He taught at several schools before going to Pratt Institute in 1950. There Calvin was a Professor of Art and Head of the Graduate Sculpture program. He retired as PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PRATT INSTITUTE in 1985 and later moved to Florida.
He was a prominent SCULPTOR and an ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST, although he walked his own line between representation and abstraction. His figures have muscular form; and simultaneously have serenity and a tension. Powerful – majestic – mysterious works! Calvin was a sculptor of enormous range and integrity! He combined both tools and hand to develop his geometric element of distortion from life-like to emotions!
Lent by Calvin Albert and filmed by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, is Calvin's study of developments in sculpture and sculpture training; including writings by Calvin's own experiments with casting work being done in art schools, and areas of technique development in sculpture, and sculptures by him.
A quote from Calvin Albert 1982:
"MY WORK BEGINS WITH IMPROVISATION, A SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT OF FORMS. THE SHAPES PROVOKE NEW IMAGES, AND GRADUALLY I BRING OUT WHAT I FIND IN THE MATERIAL".
Calvin, also was given, in 1961-62, by the American Commission for Cultural Exchange with ITALY, a Fulbright Research Grant; and to the American Academy in Rome where he worked a guest artist. In 1963 and 1965 he received Tiffany Grants.
Calvin's works have been shown at various ONE MAN shows and MUSEUMS, both here and abroad.
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